Conflict in Sudan: the UN predicts a million displaced, 20,000 people flee to Ethiopia

2023-05-17 20:37:33

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The UN predicts one million displaced in Sudan as fighting continues despite a humanitarian truce agreement signed in Jeddah. In Port Sudan, refugees flock and live in extremely difficult conditions. And since the beginning of the war more than 20,000 people have crossed the Ethiopian border, and arrived in the small town of Métemma. Half of these people are Ethiopians returning home. Reporting by Clothilde Hazard.

The military in power in Guinea has announced that it will requisition the army in the face of new opposition demonstrations scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, and has threatened to apply anti-terrorism laws providing for up to life in prison against those responsible for a ” crisis situation”.

The soldiers of the Barkhane force would have tried to use the French journalist Olivier Dubois without his knowledge to locate a jihadist leader, without preventing his kidnapping in Mali in 2021. This is revealed by an investigation carried out by several French media.

We continue our series in Somaliland. This country, which is not recognized by the international community, has a major challenge: to develop its economy. The GDP is 3.5 billion euros, for about 5 million inhabitants… an extremely low sum. If the country highlights its political stability, it remains complicated to attract foreign investment. Reporting by Bastien Renouil

Côte d’Ivoire is the world’s largest cocoa producer. With an annual output of about 2.2 million tons. About 35 to 40% of cocoa is processed in the country, the rest is exported: a trend that the government would like to reverse. Meet a local producer at the end of this journal.

Editor: Célia Caracena

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